Aside from the creative decisions, there are also budgets to stick to and legal difficulties to swerve.
At an RTS Northern Ireland online event last month, “Clearing music for TV and film: the lowdown”, music consultant and supervisor Catherine Grimes and Juliette Squair, co-founder of music library The Nerve, offered advice based on more than 30 years of experience each in music and TV.
Two of Scotland's leading dubbing mixers are coming together to unravel the secrets of sound.
Kahl Henderson of Savalas: winner of RTS Scotland Award 2017 for Craft: Sound.
The Secret Agent (World Productions), Battle Mountain (Dir. David Street), Sheep and Wolves (Wizart Animation), Outlander (Sony/Starz) Shetland (ITV Studios)
When California-based HBO drama Big Little Lies hit screens earlier this year, it wasn’t the A-list cast or the aspirational architecture that got people talking.
The standout star of the series was its soundtrack, developed by director Jean-Marc Vallée and music supervisor Sue Jacobs.
The soul-inflected soundtrack is central to the series. It begins with Michael Kiwanuka’s Cold Little Heart playing over views of the Pacific Coast Highway and climaxes in the series finale, where Elvis’s back catalogue is weaponised in the power struggle between parents.
